Re: STL custom allocator question
"Kevin" <kevhsu@msn.com> wrote in message
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I have kind of a newbie question about STL's custom allocators. I'm
writing a game and thus I want to avoid malloc, so naturally I'm
inclined to create a pool custom allocator for std::list. I have
implemented one, but when I instantiate a std::list<mytype_t,
mypoolalloc<...>>, the following happens:
1. As expected, my allocator's default constructor is called.
2. STL copy constructs my allocator when creating the head node.
I'm confused why STL needs to instantiate more than one copy of my
allocator.
Allocators are stored and passed around by value. If you want to store
substantial state, create a separate class to store it in, and have the
allocator hold a reference to it. All its copies would just refer to the
same implementation (perhaps reference-counted).
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